“ I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don't see any chance of it just at present. ”
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1893). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
|---|---|
| Source | Lady Windermere's Fan |
| Topic | knowledge self |
| Date | 1893 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/790/790-h/790-h.htm |
Context
“
Dumby. What a mystery you are!
Lady Plymdale. [Looking at him.] I wish you were!
Dumby. I am—to myself. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don't see any chance of it just at present.
[They pass into the ball-room, and Lady Windermere and Lord Darlington enter from the terrace.]
Lady Windermere. Yes. Her coming here is monstrous, unbearable. I know now what you meant to-day at tea-time.” source
Dumby. What a mystery you are!
Lady Plymdale. [Looking at him.] I wish you were!
Dumby. I am—to myself. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don't see any chance of it just at present.
[They pass into the ball-room, and Lady Windermere and Lord Darlington enter from the terrace.]
Lady Windermere. Yes. Her coming here is monstrous, unbearable. I know now what you meant to-day at tea-time.” source
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